Improvement in gas-torches



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' GAS TORCH. v

No: 1 87',07Z '1 Patented Feb.6, 1877.

WITNESSES: INVENTDR I N a N-PEII'ERS, PHOTO-LITNOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES lnn'rli j'rrcs ALBERT R. WEISS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAS-TORCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,072, dated February 6,1877; application filed January 13, 1877.

To all whom ct may concern:

'Be it known that I, ALBERT R. WEISS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Gas-Torch, of which the following is a specification The accompanying drawing represents a vertical longitudinal section of my improved gas-lighting torch.

The object of myinvention is to furnish for general use in private dwellings and public buildings an improved torch that lights the gas by the ignition of fulminate pellets, fed by a simpleand durable mechanism, and ignited by a suitable explosive device.

The invention consists of a gas-lighting torch worked by a fulminate ribbon, whose pellets are fed and ignited by a suitable mechanism in connection with a sliding sectional piston-rod, operated from a trigger of the handle guided in the curved tube, and reset by a spring of the feeding device.

By referring to the drawing, A represents a gastorch, having the general appearance of the well-known electric gastorch, with a gascollecting bell, B, at the end, a bent neck, 0, handle D, and a wrench, E, for turning the gas-cocks. The curved neck 0, and a straight handle connecting-rod, U, are made tubular,

, and serve. to guide a piston-rod, a, which may be made of different sections, a straight one in the straight part of the guide-tube, and of several curved parts in the neck portion.

The piston-rod a, may be made of pieces of wire of s'uitablethickness, or of rubber or other suitable material.

In place of the sectional piston-rod .a continuous flexible wire rod may be employed.

The piston-rod ais moved forward by means of a trigger, D, of the handle, which is worked by the thumb or hand, so as to operate a mechanism for feeding and igniting a fulminate ribbon, F, arranged intermediately between the gas-bell B and the end of the neck 0. The fulminate-ribbon F is placed in coiled state into a magazine, F, with detachable eover, and fed forward by the sliding feeder G, that is guided by its slotted enlarged part along the center-post of the magazine,

and extended back through a guide-slot into the straight end of neck 0. The feeder G is bent at right angles inside of neck-tube 0, so as to form a circular shoulder, a, on which the piston-rod acts to move the feeder in one direction, while a strong spiral spring, G interposed between the end of the closed neck-tube and the shoulder a, forces feeder and piston-rod back as soon as the trigger is released.

The forward motion of the piston-rod and feeder moves the fulminate ribbon forward, and exposes a pellet of the same to the action of the spring-hammer that is operated by the feeding device.

The ignition of the pellet lights instantly the gas collected by the funnel or bell, when the same has been placed in position above the burner, while the spring of the feeder carries the same and the piston-rod back, and sets the trigger into position for lighting the next burner, and so on.

Any suitable mechanism for igniting the fulminate pellets may be used, as I do not confine myself to the construction shown in the drawing.

The fulminate-ribbon F is guided to the anvil in suitable manner, and retained thereon by a cross-pin, b, for the action of the hammer, the spent ribbon passing off back of the bell through a recess or opening, d, to be removed from time to time.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A gas-torch composed of a gas-bell, and of mechanism for feeding and igniting a ful minate-ribbon, operated in connection with a sliding and spring-acted piston-rod from the handle of the torch, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the trigger D, sliding piston-rod a, and guide-tube and curved neck-tube O O, with a sliding and spring acted mechanism for feeding and igniting the pellets of a fulminate-ribbon at the end of the curved neck of the torch, substantially as shown and described.

3. The sliding and spring-acted feeder, having extension with end shoulder or seat, in the anvil and exit-opening back of the bell combination with a trigger-acted and sliding to guide ribbon to anvil, and to the outside, piston-rod to push the feeder forward for ignisubstantially as specified. tion of pellet, and carry feeder and piston ALBERT R. WEISS. back for resetting trigger, substantially as set Witnesses: forth. PAUL GOEPEL,

4. The magazine F, having guide-pin near O. SEDGWIOK. 

